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Famous people born on March 5
Short answer
Well-known people born on March 5 include George Frideric Handel (1685), Zhou Enlai (1898), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922) and Aleksandar Vučić (1970). Our list below has 93 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives March 5 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1585 (Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony) and the most recent is 2000 (Beatrice Chebet). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, singer.
Who was born on March 5?
- George Frideric Handel 1685 German-British Baroque composer
- Zhou Enlai 1898 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China
- Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922 Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual
- Aleksandar Vučić 1970 5th President of the Republic of Serbia
- Eva Mendes 1974 American actress and model
- Daniel Kahneman 1934 Israeli-American psychologist and economist
- Olusegun Obasanjo 1937 Nigerian president and military leader
- Bernard Arnault 1949 French entrepreneur
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 1696 Italian painter
- Siegbert Tarrasch 1862 German chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician
- João Lourenço 1954 President of Angola since 2017
- Felipe González 1942 Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996
- James Tobin 1918 American economist
- Lynn Margulis 1938 American evolutionary biologist
- Rex Harrison 1908 British actor
- Madison Beer 1999 American singer
- Kensuke Nagai 1989 Japanese association football player
- Gerald Vanenburg 1964 Dutch association football player
- Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887 Brazilian composer
- John Frusciante 1970 American guitarist
- Yusra Mardini 1998 German Syrian swimmer
- Canaan Banana 1936 1st President of Zimbabwe
- Michel Devoret 1953 French physicist
- Shusaku Hirasawa 1949 Japanese association football player
- Fred 1993 Brazilian association football player, born 1993
- Dean Stockwell 1936 American actor
- Samantha Eggar 1939 British actress
- Merih Demiral 1998 Turkish association football player
- Laurent Schwartz 1915 French mathematician
- Anna Chakvetadze 1987 Russian tennis player
- Walter Kasper 1933 Cardinal and bishop of the Catholic Church
- Beatrice Chebet 2000 Kenyan long-distance runner born 2000
- Juan Carlos Villamayor 1969 Paraguayan association football player
- Marco Ureña 1990 Costa Rican footballer
- Lotta Engberg 1963 Swedish singer and television host
- Danny Drinkwater 1990 English association football player
- Karl Rahner 1904 German Catholic theologian
- Juan Esnáider 1973 Argentine association football player and manager
- William Beveridge 1879 British economist and social reformer
- Austen Henry Layard 1817 British politician
- Silvan Widmer 1993 Swiss association football player
- Robin Hobb 1952 American fiction writer (pseudonym)
- Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony 1585 Elector of Saxony
- Étienne-Jules Marey 1830 French scientist and chronophotographer
- Sterling Knight 1989 American actor, singer, songwriter, director, comedian and musician
- Nandó dos Santos 1950 Angolan politician
- Ramiro Funes Mori 1991 Argentine association football player
- Momofuku Ando 1910 Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, created instant noodle (ramyeon), Nissin Chikin Ramen
- Matt Lucas 1974 British actor, comedian and screenwriter
- Guillaume Hoarau 1984 French footballer
- Šarūnas Jasikevičius 1976 Lithuanian basketball player and coach
- Youssouf Sabaly 1993 Senegalese and French footballer
- Mika Newton 1986 Ukrainian singer
- Jake Lloyd 1989 American actor
- Yoshua Bengio 1964 Canadian computer scientist
- Misao Okawa 1898 Japanese supercentenarian
- Andy Gibb 1958 British singer
- Dong Biwu 1886 Former acting President of the People's Republic of China
- Jens Jeremies 1974 German association football player
- Vazgen Sargsyan 1959 Military commander, politician
- David Marshall 1985 Scottish association football player
- Volodymyr Bezsonov 1958 Ukrainian footballer
- Kevin Connolly 1974 American actor
- Aarthi Aggarwal 1984 American-born Indian actress
- Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini 1968 Former Prime Minister of Eswatini
- Ennio Flaiano 1910 Italian writer
- Yeri 1999 South Korean singer and actress
- Rogelio Funes Mori 1991 Argentine-Mexican footballer
- Eddy Grant 1948 British singer
- Sepp Piontek 1940 German association football player and manager
- Paulo Fonseca 1973 Portuguese football player and manager
- Daria Saville 1994 Russian-Australian tennis player
- Riki Lindhome 1979 American actress
- Taylor Marie Hill 1996 American model
- László Benedek 1905 Hungarian-born film director
- Adriana Barraza 1956 Mexican actress, acting coach, director
- Mehmed Emin Âli Paşa 1815 Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier
- Daniel Risch 1978 Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 2021 to 2025
- Gastón Silva 1994 Uruguayan professional footballer
- Yuri Lowenthal 1971 American voice actor
- Aasif Mandvi 1966 British actor
- Henry Travers 1874 British-American actor
- Dominique McElligott 1986 Irish actress
- Noam Bettan 1998 Israeli singer-songwriter
- Michiyasu Osada 1978 Japanese association football player
- Princess Mary of Great Britain 1723 Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel
- Vladimir Maslachenko 1936 Soviet footballer
- Kenan Karaman 1994 Turkish association football player
- Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn 1934 Vietnamese Catholic cardinal
- Liassine Cadamuro 1988 Algerian and French footballer
- Frank Norris 1870 American journalist and novelist
- Jacques Babinet 1794 French physicist, mathematician and astronomer
- Sutan Sjahrir 1909 Prime Minister of Indonesia
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on March 5 share the 5th of March as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.